Another win in that agreement is a change in the bargaining calendar. Going forward, CFA and CSU management will begin talks earlier, before the CSU Board of Trustees makes its funding request to the state.

That change means CFA and CSU management will begin negotiations on the entire contract—a new multi-year agreement—in July 2017 for implementation in July 2018.

CFA has already launched the first step in this process—holding faculty meetings on the CSU campuses to review what we have accomplished and discuss what comes next.

In addition to the campus meetings this Fall, CFA will ask faculty to complete a survey about the principal issues in successor contract talks.

Good news! The hard-earned salary increases we fought for should appear in our paychecks sooner than previously anticipated. We have been told by CSU management that faculty should see the increase in our August 1 paychecks.

The following is a statement by Jonathan Karpf, CFA’s Associate Vice President of Lecturers North, to the CSU Board of Trustees during the May 24-25 meeting in Long Beach.

Good morning. My name is Jonathan Karpf. I’ve been a Lecturer at San Jose State University since 1987 in the Department of Anthropology, the CFA AVP of Lecturers-North since 2009, and a member of the bargaining team since 2007.